I just wish government software was half as updated as Claude Code is.
A version number like 1.21459.3 means a permanent team shipping improvements every day. Most government systems can’t have a version number like that. They were bought as projects: delivered, declared finished at go-live, team gone within weeks. Then nothing until the nextv tender, five or seven years later.
We keep buying software the way we buy bridges.
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